The health digital twin to tackle cardiovascular disease—a review of an emerging interdisciplinary field

G Coorey, GA Figtree, DF Fletcher, VJ Snelson… - NPJ digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Potential benefits of precision medicine in cardiovascular disease (CVD) include more
accurate phenotyping of individual patients with the same condition or presentation, using …

Digital twin in healthcare: Recent updates and challenges

T Sun, X He, Z Li - Digital Health, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As simulation is playing an increasingly important role in medicine, providing the individual
patient with a customised diagnosis and treatment is envisaged as part of future precision …

Sex matters: a comprehensive comparison of female and male hearts

SR St. Pierre, M Peirlinck, E Kuhl - Frontiers in physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular disease in women remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Recent
studies suggest that this is caused, at least in part, by the lack of sex-specific diagnostic …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and biophysically detailed computational model of the whole human heart electromechanics

M Fedele, R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
While ventricular electromechanics is extensively studied in both physiological and
pathological conditions, four-chamber heart models have only been addressed recently; …

Digital twin for healthcare systems

A Vallée - Frontiers in Digital Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Digital twin technology is revolutionizing healthcare systems by leveraging real-time data
integration, advanced analytics, and virtual simulations to enhance patient care, enable …

[HTML][HTML] 3D–0D closed-loop model for the simulation of cardiac biventricular electromechanics

R Piersanti, F Regazzoni, M Salvador, AF Corno… - Computer Methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two crucial factors for accurate numerical simulations of cardiac electromechanics, which
are also essential to reproduce the synchronous activity of the heart, are:(i) accounting for …

Integrating mechanism-based modeling with biomedical imaging to build practical digital twins for clinical oncology

C Wu, G Lorenzo, DA Hormuth, EABF Lima… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital twins employ mathematical and computational models to virtually represent a
physical object (eg, planes and human organs), predict the behavior of the object, and …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-specific modeling of blood flow in the coronary arteries

CA Taylor, K Petersen, N Xiao, M Sinclair, Y Bai… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patient-specific models of blood flow in the coronary arteries have entered clinical practice
worldwide to aid in the diagnosis and management of heart disease. This technology …

GPU accelerated digital twins of the human heart open new routes for cardiovascular research

F Viola, G Del Corso, R De Paulis, R Verzicco - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The recruitment of patients for rare or complex cardiovascular diseases is a bottleneck for
clinical trials and digital twins of the human heart have recently been proposed as a viable …

Predictive digital twin for optimizing patient-specific radiotherapy regimens under uncertainty in high-grade gliomas

A Chaudhuri, G Pash, DA Hormuth… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We develop a methodology to create data-driven predictive digital twins for optimal risk-
aware clinical decision-making. We illustrate the methodology as an enabler for an …